Susan Davis (author)

Susan Davis is an author, public speaker and expert in international development and social entrepreneurship. She was the founding president of BRAC USA, an organization created to support BRAC, a position she held until 2015. BRAC runs programs to alleviate poverty using microfinance, education, healthcare, legal services, community empowerment, and other methods.

Career

Davis has been an advisor to New York University's Catherine B. Reynolds Program for Social Entrepreneurship since its inception. Susan led Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship and serves on its international board committee that selects Ashoka Fellows. She also oversaw Ashoka's expansion to the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia and served as a Senior Advisor to the Director General of the International Labor Organization. Davis served as the Assistant Director of the first quasi-public export trading company founded by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She was the executive director of Women's Environment & Development Organization, founded in 1990 by Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber to take action in the United Nations and other international policymaking forums. Prior to that, she led initiatives aimed at scaling up microfinance institutions that were owned and governed by poor women at Women's World Banking and the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh. During her four and half years in Dhaka, she organized the Grameen Bank, BRAC and Proshika donor consortia to scale up microfinance. She was a founding board member and chair of the Grameen Foundation and was a board member there as of 2013. She was also featured in Fast Company's The League of Extraordinary Women list in 2012. Davis was educated at Georgetown (BSFS 1978), Harvard (MPA 1982), and Oxford Universities (MPhil candidate 1980-81).

Plot: After two CSA agents assassinate their mentors but don't remember the crimes, master puzzle-solver Cathy Davis, a.k.a. Jane Doe, connects the incidents to a secret government experiment in mind control. Now, Cathy must quickly uncover who is behind this murderous mission -- before the next agent kills.

Plot: The CSA takes over from the police when a major defense contractor's CFO is murdered. According to the security video, only the CEO whom he was going to denounce his 17-fold stupid fraud to the board entered, yet he has a pretty convincing mayoral alibi. After a key witness is also murdered, while he's in jail, the only remaining possibility is a twin brother. Indeed he ignored being adopted by a wealthy couple, which then felt too poor to take his brother too.

Plot: Charles is worn down by his home life where he and his wife struggle to cope with the demands of their daughter's illness and his job. When he meets Lucinda on the train to work in Chicago, there is an immediate spark between them. Soon they are doing lunch; dinner and drinks follow. This leads to an adulterous rendezvous in a hotel. However, no sooner have they torn each other's clothes off than their room is invaded by a thief who beats Charles and rapes Lucinda. Because of the illicit nature of their relationship, Charles agrees with Lucinda who is reluctant to go to the police and soon finds he is powerless to resist the demands of the thief.

Plot: Aaron Davis ('Steve Sandvoss' (qv)) and Christian Markelli ('Wes Ramsey' (qv)) are the two most opposite people in the world. Aaron is a young Elder (or a Mormon missionary) who wants to do his family proud and is quite passionate about his religion and film. Christian is a shallow WeHo waiter/party boy who only looks forward to bedding a new guy every night. After Aaron and three other missionaries move into the apartment across from Christian, his friends bet him $50 that he can't get one of them to jump into the sack, so he instantly latches onto Aaron. There are two problems, though - Christian is falling in love with Aaron and the Mormons are not the biggest fans of the homosexual community. Once Aaron is discovered, the two have to go through trials of regret, loss, perseverance, and forgiveness if they both want to get to the thing that matters to them most: each other.

Quotes:

Elder Aaron Davis: I didn't come to unload on you.::Lila Montagne: You gave me that privilege once. Let me return the favor.::Elder Aaron Davis: After we... After we met, I was... sent home and excommunicated... for being gay.::Lila Montagne: Your church doesn't like alcohol or homosexuals. Hmm... Well, I'm definitely not joining. Can't imagine heaven without both.

[on the phone with Julie]::Christian Markelli: Where did we end up last night?::Julie: I don't know, but I woke up without my bra and that's never a good sign.::[notices he's wearing it]::Christian Markelli: I wouldn't worry about it.

[reading a tabloid]::Christian Markelli: Oh... Say it isn't so.::Keith Griffin: What?::Christian Markelli: Well, apparently, poor Pam Anderson has had her breast implants taken out and put back in so many times that her entire chest is collapsing.::[squealing]::Christian Markelli: Oh, they have bikini pictures! They're horrible!::Keith Griffin: Shut up.::Christian Markelli: No, they are - seriously. They're down to her knees. Eat your chicken and I'll show you.::Keith Griffin: Prick.::[does as he's asked]::Keith Griffin: Give me the fucking magazine.

Julie Taylor: Why don't we just play two-on-two?::Ryder: But you're...::Julie Taylor: A girl? So I can't play? But then I am black so maybe I can. Your only problem's gonna be deciding which one of your narrow-minded stereotypes is gonna kick your lily-white ass. Afraid you'll get beaten?::Christian Markelli: By a girl and a fag?

[playing basketball]::Elder Aaron Davis: You can play.::Christian Markelli: Yeah, we can learn a skill. I played in high school and I learned out all the jocks were doin' it, but only with other jocks.

[after having sex with Christian]::Elder Aaron Davis: Well, I'm already going to hell for kissing you so I may as well take the scenic route.

Lila Montagne: I don't believe in coincidence. These days, I believe in miracles.

ALAMEDA — KristenWong felt the flutter of butterflies in her stomach as she walked into the administrative office at Lincoln Middle School two years ago ... “Watch me get dress coded,” she told her friends ... “I see this as part in parcel of these other changes that are happening in our culture right now around the #MeToo movement and concerns about rape culture,” said SusanDavis, spokeswoman for the district....